Actually, we DO need a tax cut now. If Bush hadn't squandered the surplus, we could have a stimulative tax cut now and still be fiscally-prudent. Now we are between a rock and a hard place like Japan. Raising taxes will drag the economy down further and cutting them will put the dollar into free fall. We need an FDR-like change to restructure the economy.

  That 480 billion dollar does not even count the money they used from the trust fund. That yearly surplus that is supposed to be accumulating for the boomers. The money they use every year to make their numbers look better. This administration does not honor or even acknowledge that money. I believe its upwards of 170 billion this year. Nobody even talks about it anymore. So call it 650 billion. FDR is spinning in his grave.
  I truly hate these liars and war pigs.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals "who are ruining the country," court records show.

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Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

Yep, the chickens have finally come home to roost.  The right wing silence on these facts will be deafening.

Owen said Adkisson's stated hatred of the liberal movement was not necessarily connected to any hostility toward Christianity or religion per say, but rather the political advocacy of the church.

The church's Web site states that it has worked for "desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women's rights and gay rights" since the 1950s. Current ministries involve emergency aid for the needy, school tutoring and support for the homeless, as well as a cafe that provides a gathering place for gay and lesbian high-schoolers.

Wow!  Racial harmony, fair wages, human and civil rights, aid to the poor, support for the homeless, reaching out to gay teens.  Sure does sound to me like stuff that Jesus would hate.

All the right wing nut jobs will do everything they can to push this one down the memory hole as quickly as possible.  It doesn't do much for their brand, that's for sure.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

not a good enough reason.

According to McCain, only he can save us because a vote for Obama will bring us a depression.

The McCain camp know of which they speak..but how will they save us from what has been cast?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Only Republican's need apply:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801007.html?hpid=topnews

appears Gonzo's Justice Department played politics with the Justice Department. I think the Dems. should make all those political hires quit and re-apply. Wonder if John McCain is against "affirmative action" for Republicans.

steven...don't be such a cassandra...we don't need a tax increase...the irs is cracking down on all those underlings abusing their company issued cellphones. that'll surely bring the deficit down.

l got a "log" for chimpy and j-mac...it's hollow and they can sleep in it.

the revolution will not be televised...Peace

Our campaign to take down a shock jock radio host has gone viral.  If you have no clue what I'm talking about, here's a good starting place

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

equally disturbing is this TPM, Josh Marshall's nugget:

McCain's foreign policy advisor Scheunemann:

Shouldn't They Tell You?

We're regularly told that we should be looking into the background of a presidential candidates key advisors. And in the on-going contretemps over who's got the best judgment and experience on Iraq, John McCain voice and brain is Randy Scheunemann. Look at the key statements from the campaign, the enunciations of policy and so forth and you'll see they're almost all statements from him. So who is it that's speaking for John McCain on Iraq and shaping his views of what our policy there should be?

It comes as no surprise that Scheunemann was a staunch supporter of the war. But he was much more that. He was not only a key behind-the-scenes promoter and architect of the war. He also had a troublingly close relationship with Ahmad Chalabi -- the Iraqi exile we now know fed the US reams of bogus intelligence about phantom WMD and ties to al Qaeda and allegedly also shared highly classified US intelligence with the Iranians. Indeed, something I didn't realize, back when he and other neoconservatives were cooking up the Iraq War in 2002, Scheunemann's lobbying firm, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which he set up with the White House's blessing to gin up support for the Iraq War and Chalabi's handler/spokesman Francis Brook all shared an address. Almost as if they were different arms of the same operation.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

of course it's low. right off the top= remember, add 80 billion for latest Iraq supplemental. Then go from there.
 

If McCain the Insane follows Bush to the White House, it would be like Herbert Hoover succeeding Calvin Coolidge.  Depression, here we come.  Then, again, America would be able to realize what a depression feels like and so expand its experiential field.

I guess the republicans just what to teach us what good times are really like. What better way than by contrasting the prosperity that we are familiar with, with the economic sufferings that are just around the corner.  Only this time we have two, maybe three, maybe four wars to worry about.

Somehow, I think no one is ever going to ignore the legacy of GW Bush.

Down the drain with John McCain.

And time for more of those incentive payments that have been so instrumental in revitalizing our economy.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin -SLB-

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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."